Articulating the Optimal Features of a Good Muslim Wife
Some Qur’anic expressions that Affiliate with the Woman’s Perfect, Metaphysical and Real Worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22217825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sami Al-Heeh (Palestine Ahliya University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 99-113 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2617-0299 • E-ISSN: 2708-0099 |
| Publisher | Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.6.10 |
| OpenAlex | W3037658906 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This small-scale study investigates the optimal features of good Muslim woman. It aims to describe, interpret, and explain the rhetorical features of the properties the Qur’anic discourse (QD) maintains for both sexes and those it excludes for the good Muslim woman. The study benefits from corpus, i.e. text, linguistics for data collection. It also applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the Quotes collected from the Noble Qur’an (NQ). The paper builds on Van Dijk’s 1998 model of analysis at the syntactic, semantic and schematic levels of the properties identified for a good Muslim woman. It has been found that the QD assigns ten properties to describe a good Muslim man and woman; they include submission, belief, obedience, truthfulness, faithfulness, humbleness, alms giving, fasting, chastity, and turning to Allah. Among these, the QD exclusively and inclusively lists ‘being resigned, believing, always turning to Him, being devoted to worship, fasting’, and ‘being a widow or a virgin’ as general semantic features for a good Muslim wife. It has been concluded that the properties identified for a good Muslim woman have directive, informative, meta-linguistic and affective functions. They are part of the sociology of Islam which accommodates the ontological principle of creating women as a different sex having other roles to play with the deontological theory of moral obligation to obey freely the other sex. The Qur’anic engineering tactfully goes beyond reconciling both sexes’ needs and roles to repair some social norms established and entrenched against the woman who has already experienced marriage before
Epistemology · Indonesian · Islam · Linguistics · Obedience · Obligation · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Theology · Wife · Worship · Education and Islamic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Snapshots of Islamic Modernities
Modern Traditions? British Muslim Women and Academic Achievement
Ideology
The Dutch and the face-veil
Islamic Headscarves' and the European Convention On Human Rights
Modern Traditions? British Muslim Women and Academic Achievement
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
Muslim First, Arab Second
How to Be a Good Muslim Wife
| Highly cited | No |
|---|